Rufus Phillips

Rufus C. Phillips III (born August 10, 1929) is an American writer, businessman, politician, and Central Intelligence Agency employee.

Rufus Phillips
Born (1929-08-10) August 10, 1929
Middletown, Ohio
Alma materYale University

Life

Phillips was born in Middletown, Ohio and was raised in rural Charlotte County, Virginia.[1] He was educated at Woodberry Forest School and Yale University and was a young Central Intelligence Agency officer in Saigon in the 1950s.[2]

In 1954, Phillips joined the United States Army and served as a military advisor to the South Vietnam government. Phillips was a protégé of General Edward Lansdale and participated in the 1962 RAND Counterinsurgency Symposium alongside other counterinsurgency experts such as David Galula and Frank Kitson.[3] In Vietnam, Phillips was one af the architects of the Chieu Hoi program to persuade Vietcong fighters to defect. Phillips then lived in Fairfax County, Virginia and was president of the Inter-Continental Consultants, Inc. He served on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and was a Democrat. He ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1974, and lost the primary election.[4][5][6]

Phillips is the author of Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned.[7] He is a regular guest on The John Batchelor Show and discusses topics on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Works
  • Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned Naval Institute Press, 2017. ISBN 9781682473108, OCLC 992225373

References
  1. Kennedy, Charles Stuart. "Interview with Rufus C. Phillips, III". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  2. 'Fairfax Democrat Joins Senate Race,' The Washington Post, Ken Ringle, November 20, 1977
  3. Hosmer, Stephen T.; Crane, S. O. (2006). Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16–20, 1962. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  4. Gerwehr, Scott; Hachigian, Nina (2005-08-26). "In Iraq's prisons: A little tenderness can turn around insurgents". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  5. Ringle, Ken (1977-11-20). "Faifax Democrat Joins Senate Race". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  6. "Candidate - Rufus Phillips". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  7. "Vietnam, Allied invasion of Italy". The Washington Times. February 22, 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
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